Keneson



E. Goss.

Patented Oct. 25,'1887.

CLOTHES DRIEB.. 10.372,21'7.

f NTTED STATES PATENT Ormese EDWARD GOSS, OF ST. JOHNSBURY, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE W. KENESON AND lV. V. HARDY, BOTH OF CONCORD, VERMONT.

CLOTH Es-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,217, dated October 25, 1887.

Application tiled February 17, 1887. Serial No. 227,857.

To aIZZ whom, it may concern:

- Beit known that I, EDWARD Goss, a citizenv ofthe United States, residing at St. Johnsbu ry,

in the county of Caledonia and State of Ver- 5 mont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers; and I do de.

clare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will en.

able others skilled in the art to .which it ap- Io pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,^and

to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specication.

The special object of theinvention is to make certain improvements upon the clothes-drier described in Patent No. 195,761.

These improvements will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then 2o pointed out in the claim.

Figure l of the drawings is a side elevation, partly in section; Fig. 2, a plan View.; Fig. 3, a detail view in side elevation; Fig. 4, a rear elevation, and Fig. 5 a front and edge view in 25 elevation. Ilig. 6 is asection on line xx of Fig".

In the drawings, A represents the body of the drier, having the socket a projecting downwardly, so that it may be placed upon astake 3o driven into the ground. On the back of this socket are arranged two lateral projections, a a', and an intermediate angular rib, a2, the former supported in hooks .b b and the latter (No model.)

between them and in guides b b of the bracket B. The latter has holes b2 b2, by which it may be screwed or otherwise attached to awall. In the periphery of the body A, I make the slots a3 in the bent or vert-ical front, the shoulders a4 on the under side,just back of the slots, one on each side thereof, and the rounded edge a5, crossing the end of the slot. G are the wooden'arms on which the clothes are hung, and which are provided with the diagonallyopposite notches c c', of which the former receive the shoulders ai* and the latter fit on the rounded edge a5, the arm being thusA securely held in a horizontal position.

On the rear under side I attach the hook D, so arranged that when the arm is drawn forward it may turn on the round edge a5 and be suspended perpendicularly therefrom, or they may be turned still farther around until they may be removed entirely from the body or casting.

What I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

The casting consisting ofthe socket a, provided with the projections a c and rib a2, whereby it may be used either with a stake or bracket, as setforth.

4In testimony whereof I afX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDXVARD GOSS.

Witnesses:

W. S. STREETER, N. F. IRISH. 

